Toy railway and telegraph-pole.



' PATENTED JUNE 19, 1906.

B. R. IVES.

TOY'RAILWA-Y AND TELEGRAPHPOLE.

APPLIOATION FILED MARJZ, 1906.

UNITED STATES PATENT L oFFIoE.

EDWARD R; IVES, OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE IVESMANUFACTURING CORPORATION, OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTI- CUT, A CORPORATIONOF CONNECTICUT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 19, 1906.

Application filed March 12, 1906. Serial No. 305,456.

To 66 whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD R. IvEs, a citizen of the United States, anda resident of Bridgeport, in the county of Fairfield and State ofConnecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in ToyRailways and Telegraph-Poles, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to new and useful improvements in toyrailway-tracks such as are referred to in my former patent of April 26,1904, No. 758,448, and refers more especially to telegraph-poleconnections for such tracks.

It is the object'of my inventionto provide a telegraph pole of -suitabledesign with means for its connections at proper intervals to toy tracksof the above general design, and especially for attachment to thesleepers or ties, so called, of such tracks; to construct the device sothat the pole may be readily set up and uniformly attached, preferablyto the under side of such sleeper in a way to lend rigidity and strengthto the road-bed; to design the pole so that when not in use it may beeasily disconnected and packed away in a small space along with theseveral members of a sectional track of this kind.

Upon the accompanying sheet of drawings, forming a part of thisspecification, similar numerals of reference denote like orcorresponding parts throughout the several figures, and of which Figure1 shows a perspective view of a straight line of toy miniaturerailway-track such as are extensively manufactured and having a seriesof my improved telegraphpoles connected therewith. Fig. 2 shows adetached perspective view of one of my improved poles and attachablebase-plates. Fig. 3 shows a detail cross-section through the base-plate,showing end of sleeper as taken on line 3 3 of Fig. 1. Fig.4 shows adetail sectional elevation of a slightly-modified form of the invention,the same including a separable pole and base-plate.

The particular construction of track referred to will be well understoodfrom Fig. 1 and is constructed of sheet metal bent up to form rails 10and sleepers 11, which are of uniform designs and which are laterassembled by the attachment of the rails to the sleepers as by means ofswaging. The track is obviously formed in sections of suitable lengthswith preferably three sleepers to each section. These sections are madeup in both straight and curved forms and are provided with means forsecuring the connecting ends togetheras, for instance, pins 12 andplates 13, each of which has been already secured by me by priorpatents. The sleepers referred to are of an invertedtrough-like design,hav ing the lower edges of their sides 14 deflected outward in oppositedirections to form flanged bearings 15, which also serve to be engagedby the turned-over edges of the plate 13, whichholds the ends of thesections together, as well as serving to support the pole-base.

In the construction of a line I prefer to assemble in the order of onepole to each section, and elect to attach such pole to the intermediateor middle sleepers of each section.

In detail my invention comprises a pole 16, which may be formed of roundwire or tubing and provided with cross-arms 17, having eyes 18 toreceive light wires strung therethrough in imitation of largetelegraph-wires. The lower end of the pole is preferably fixed to theouter end of an elongated base-plate 19,.

which in turn has its opposite parallel side edges turned over to formways 20, which are designed to engage the side flanges 15 of thesleeper. The said inwardly-deflected edges of the base are furtherprovided with indentations 21, as is clearly shown in Fig. 2, whichserve as stops to engage the end of the sleeper and insure the properuniform aline ment of the series of poles with the'track. This form ofbase for the poles permits of its convenient attachment to the track andraises the intermediate sleeper slightly to better conform to theposition of the end sleepers, which are similarly raised by theintroduction thereunder of the binding-plate 13, thus forming a morerigid support for the tracks. These poles may be attached to the trackeither before or after the sections of track are assembled. I

In Fig; 4 I have shown a socket 22, attached to the base-plate, whichextends up slightly in a way to receive the lower end of the pole andsupport the same in a vertical position, which obviously permits thepole and base to be disconnected and serves the purpose fully as well asthe construction shown in Fig. 2 and likewise comes within the scope ofmy invention.

' tachment of wires.

2. The combination with a toy railway track, of a base-plate with meansto engage a sleeper of the track and extend outward therefrom, and apolemounted upon the outer end of the plate and bearing cross-arms for theattachment of wires.

3. The combination with a toy railwaytrack, having flanged sleepers, ofan elongated attachable base-plate having ways to engage such flangesand adapted to extend out beyond the end of sleeper, and a pole securedto the top side of such outer end of the plate for the attachment ofwires.

4. The combination with a toy railwaytrack including rails and sleepers,of a baseplate having ways to engage a sleeper and of March, A. D. 1906.

containing a socket upon its outer end, a pole seated in the socket andextended upward from the plate and bearing cross-arms for the attachingof wires.

5. The combination with a miniature railway-track including rails andsleepers, of a base-plate with means for attachment to the track andconstructed to extend outward therefrom, and. a pole detachablyconnected to the top side of the base-plate.

6. The combination. with a miniature railway-track including rails andsleepers, of a base-plate having ways to engage the edges of a sleeper,stops intermediate the ways to determine the position of the plates withrelation to the sleeper and a pole bearing arms attached to said plate.

Signed at Bridgeport, in the county of Fairfield and State ofConnecticut, this 8th day EDWARD R. IVES. Witnesses:

JAMES M. SAXTON,

M. S. PLATT.

